Transfer-sheet



(No Model.)

F. KOSKUL.

' TRANSFER SHEET.

No. 482,451. Patented Sept.. 1'3, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- FRED-ERICK KOSKUL, OF wILLIAnsPonr, PENNSYLVANIA.

.TRANSFE R-SHEET.

SPECIFICATIOII forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,451, dated September 13, 1892.

Application filed November 1889 To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, FREDERICK KosKUL,of Williamsport,in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new Improvement in Transfer-Sheets, of which the following is a description. Myinvention relates to an improved designtransfer sheet; and the object in view is the economical production of a transfer-sheet adapted when traced by a pencil. or stylus to impart an impression in one or more colors to another surface of any material. Theimproved sheet is useful in embroiderywork to impart the desired pattern upon a fabric, the instruction of children, in the schools, and for a large variety of other purposes.

IIeretofore transparenttransfer-sheets have been marked with oily or unctuoussubstan ces; but such sheets are objectionable, as the oily and greasy substances penetrate the body of the sheet, thereby destroying the distinctiveness of the print or pattern applied tosaid sheet, and the latter is liable to soil and deface the surface of paper, fabric, or other article'placed beneath the transfer-sheet.

III-producing my improved sheet I impress or print the desired pattern or design on one or both surfaces of the sheet and in one or any desired number of colors, the design be- ,ing formed by a non-unctuous substance or material, such as printers ink, particularly those of the cheaper grades, whereby a substantially permanent transfer or copy (more or less ineflt'aceable) is obtained;

The invention further consists in the adapttation of the sheet, as will be further explained, and pointed out in the claims.

To enable others to understand myinvention, I have illustrated the same in the accompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 is a face view of my improved transfer;sheet, the dotted lines indicating the pattern or design on the rear or. unseen surface of the sheet. Fig. 2 is a face view of the sheet in which the front face of the sheet is provided with the design or; pattern that reggenerally used for printing purposes-and apply or aflix a pattern or design B thereon,

Serial No. 329,875. (No specimens.)

which may be of any preferred configuration." 1' preferably use a low grade of ordinary prin'ters ink, free from oily and unctuous matter, to impress the pattern or design on der'to preserve fo'ran indefinite long period of time the .transfer properties of ordinary printers ink I mix with the ink melted or liquid wax or other suitable matter, which time not affect its transfer qualities. I do not, however, limit myself to the use of par ti'cular material herein specified for the impression of the pattern or design on the imliberty to use any suitable material which will not render the sheet unctuous and at the same time is capable of making an impression on a sheet of paper or fabrics when the design on the sheet'A is trace'd over by a lead I prefer to apply or impress the design or pattern on the rear suface of the sheet A-that is, the surface which cannot be seen by the observer looking at Fig. lanu for this reain said Fig. 1 to distinguish the sheet having a design on one surface from the sheet having the design on both surfaces;

Fig. 2.)

as described, onthdrear surface of ordinary to the eye of an observer looking at thefront of the sheet to enable him to trace over the oil or stylus. I

pression of the design or pattern on both surfaces of the sheetA-the front face as well as the rear face-and thetwo patterns exactly coincide or register, as indicated by Fig; 2 Such a transfer-sheet is advantageous as re- -the lines of the pattern and, the-increased to obtain with said sheet, as it can be'turned mains intact or free from punctures apt to be made by the stylus or pencil.

provedtra'nsfer-sheet A, but hold myself atpaper will be sufficiently clear and distinct lines of thepattern with a lead or crayoi pen- My invention also contemplates theiimnumber of transfer impressions it is possible one or both surfaces of the sheet A, andin ori will tend to preserve the ink and at the'same' or crayon pencil, a stylus, or' other implement.

son the pattern is'indicate'd by dotted lines I (Shown in v I have found by practical experimentsthat a pattern impressed with printersink, such spects facility for the person in tracing over over or reversed and the pattern traced from either side thereof so long as the sheet re-.'

5 audit the pattern on the sheet A: is colored it follows that the'design transferred to the surfaces of the sheet are impressed with the easily trace the lines.

thereby securing right and left hand impres- 'asitwi lllast. v

tern which are differently colored. Avariety of different colors may, however, be used on different parts of the pattern, and when both pattern the coloring of the one pattern'agrees with the colors used on the other. 4

- In lieu of applying the outline or configuration of the pattern to the sheet,:I may cover the whole fear surface of the sheet with the transferring substahce, the pattern being impressed on the front surface of the sheet or on the rear surface and suficiently distinct through the sheet to enable the attendant to.

In using my transfer-sheet I place it over a piece of paper,- cloth, fabric, or other substance, and then a stylus 'or pencil is used to trace over the lines of the pattern or design, whereby the transfer 'print on the rear surface of the sheet will become permanently affixed to the under layer of paper or fabric,

paper or fabric will be correspondingly colored.

I prefer to useapencil (either black lead or crayon) to trace over the design when the sheet A has the pattern on its rear surface, for the reason that the pencil or .crayon will leave the impression on the sheet, and by reversing the same hud tracing with a; stylus or pencil the impression design left by thev pencil can ,be transferred to paper or fabric in the same manner as the printed pattern,

sions and enabling one to use the sheet as long I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, the transfer-sheet herein described, comprising a single sheet of translucent paper and a design or pattern impressed or inscribed there:

on by ink, which in: presses the outlines of the pattern upon another surface when the same is traced by a pencil or stylus following the outlines of the pattern, which are visible on other surface or sheet, when traced by a stylus or pencil, substantially as described.

. As anew article of manufacture,areversible sheet having a pattern or design impressed on both surfaces thereof, the pattern on one surface registering with that on the other surface, and both patterns being correspondingly colored in two or more colors, substantially as described;

5. As a new article of manufacture, atrans; fer-sheet comprising a single sheet of paper and a design or pattern thereon, one of .the

faces of the sheet being coated in sectional transfer-colorings adapted to be impressed upon another surface when tracedby a stylbs or pencil, substantially-as described.

- FREDERICK KOSKUL.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM D. CRocKER, O rris M. KEEFER. 

